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Google Reader for Teachers and Students

Google Reader in Plain English: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSPZ2Uu_X3Y&feature=related





Teachers can use Google Reader to:

• Keep track of student blogs all in one place.
• Follow best practices in education by reading other educator’s blogs.
• Share relevant news articles with students or colleagues through the ‘Shared Items’ feature.
• Share news and current events on specific areas of interests or units of study. A class website can link to the teacher’s shared items, providing links for research projects, journal prompts, or webquests.
• Subscribe to RSS feeds for people's tags they found through a social bookmarking site.

Students can use Google Reader to:

• Keep updated on current events and news that they care about.
• Collect, annotate, and share research for collaborative projects.
• Read items that are shared by their teacher to help with current assignments.
• Subscribe to the RSS feed of a tag created by a teacher in Delicious or Diigo.

Source: https://sites.google.com/a/philau.edu/collaboration/Home/Home/getting-started/calendar/google-search/blogger/google-reader

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Use Google Reader to Interact with Students with Relevant Web Content in 10 Easy Steps

10 STEPS to GETTING STARTED and USING GOOGLE READER as a LEARNING TOOL

1. Start a Google account.
2. Jump on Google Reader.
3. Find an article that interests you and applies to one of your courses.
4. Add a "Tag" - Don't worry, Google Reader will keep it forever if you want, but make it something short and easy to understand (this makes more sense as you experiment with the URL Google assigns to this tag).
5. Select "Share with note" and write a comment.
6. Select "Manage Subscriptions"
7. Select "Folders and Tags"
8. Make the "Folder/Tag" you created "Public"
9. Select "View Public Page" option
10. Congratulations! You have just begun the fun process of integrating Google Reader in your courses and sharing relevant content that DOES NOT come from an expensive textbook.

Pick an item of Interest in Google Reader...



Share your selected item with your students via the "Share with note" option



Click "Manage Subscriptions" and select "Folders and Tags"



Take a look at what you just created... and ENJOY the possibilities!




Source: http://dontpayfortextbooks.blogspot.com/2011/02/use-google-reader-to-interact-with.html

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Following is a video about Google Reader and RSS:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQUsnjcxnDY